It's ALWAYS a stupid thing when they give cross faction consoles, because you end up with a faction's unique console becoming VASTLY more abundant and prevalent within the opposing faction, due to being much more widely available to that faction than to the one that has to buy the ship to get it. It would take some SERIOUSLY harsh drop rates for it to drop in small enough numbers that there would end up being remotely close to an equal number of consoles on both sides. The whole system is badly implemented from the start. Now, stick the cross faction consoles as pack-ins with the ships included in the lockboxes, or as lobi store items and we're talking much better balance in the acquisition rates of cross faction stuff.